Naga Munchetty Biography
Naga Munchetty is a British journalist, newsreader, and television presenter. She is a regular on BBC Breakfast. She has also previously hosted BBC World News and BBC Two’s weekday financial affairs show Working Lunch. In January 2017, she left Breakfast to work as the acting business editor for Newsnight during her maternity leave.
Naga Munchetty Age
Munchetty is 47 years old as of 2022. She was born Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah on 25 February 1975 in Streatham, London, United Kingdom.
Naga Munchetty Family
Munchetty’s mother is from Tamil Nadu, India, and her father is Mauritian; in the early 1970s, they both moved to Wales to study, her mother for dentistry and her father for nursing. They married in London without informing their parents until they were married.
Naga Munchetty Husband
Munchetty married James Haggar, an ITV broadcast consultant, in Uckfield, Sussex, in 2004. Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, is where she calls home.
Naga Munchetty Education
Munchetty primary education was received at Graveney School in Tooting. She earned a degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Leeds in 1997. Her first job was as a journalist for the London Evening Standard’s City Pages. She also contributed to The Observer’s Business Section.
Naga Munchetty Net Worth
Naga Munchetty BBC Breakfast
Munchetty was found to have violated the BBC’s guidelines in September 2019 after criticizing US President Donald Trump for perceived racism. That July, while hosting BBC Breakfast with Dan Walker, Munchetty reacted angrily to Trump’s remarks telling his opponents to “return” to the “places from which they came.”
The BBC was chastised for upholding complaints about Munchetty’s remarks. Several public figures, including Lenny Henry and Adrian Lester, signed an open letter pleading with the corporation to reconsider its decision. The complaint was also made against her co-host Dan Walker, according to The Guardian on September 30, 2019, but his comments were not the focus of the BBC’s executive complaints unit (ECU) investigation. Later that day, the BBC’s Director-General, Tony Hall, reversed the decision after personally investigating it.
Naga Munchetty Wages
According to the report, the presenter’s salary has increased from £195,000 – £199,999 to £255,000 – £259,999. Naga’s pay increase is linked to her new position at 5 Live, which she started in January 2021. In addition to her work at BBC Breakfast, the star hosts her 5 Live show three days a week.
Naga Munchetty Career
Munchetty began her television career as a reporter for Reuters Financial Television, then as a senior producer for CNBC Europe, a business producer and reporter for Channel 4 News, and a presenter on Bloomberg Television. Munchetty joined Working Lunch after it was relaunched in October 2008 and remained with the show until it was cancelled in July 2010. Munchetty has previously hosted Radio 4’s Money Box. She also reports for BBC News from the City, gauging public reaction to breaking financial stories such as the Budget and the Pre-Budget Report. Munchetty has been presenting early morning bulletins (UKT) on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News since August 2010. She is a regular on BBC One’s Breakfast show.
Munchetty took over as host of the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Radio 5 programme on Mondays through Wednesdays in January 2021, succeeding Emma Barnett, who moved to Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. In September 2010, Munchetty and Sally Taylor co-hosted The Spending Review – The South Today Debate on BBC One.
Munchetty also performed Paranormal Investigation: Live on Living on October 30–31, 2010 to commemorate Hallowe’en. Munchetty narrated the BBC documentary Fear and Faith in Paris, which focused on anti-Semitic attacks in Paris and their impact on France’s Jewish community. She won Celebrity Mastermind, which aired on January 2, 2013. She took over as presenter of BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live from Sian Williams in June 2016. Emma Barnett and Sean Fletcher took her place in 2017. Munchetty hosted an episode of Newsnight on BBC Two on August 26, 2016.
She appeared on the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, where she was paired with Pasha Kovalev and was voted out in week four. In October 2017, she co-hosted Britain’s Classroom Heroes with Sean Fletcher. Munchetty joined the cast of CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed in 2017, playing a fictionalized version of herself as a Media Studies teacher who pretends to be a newsreader.
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